China’s War Rhetoric Pushes Taiwan to Boost U.S. Economic Ties


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It’s hard to find a world leader who’s had a better 2020 than Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen. She won re-election in January in a landslide, oversaw one of the world’s best responses to the Covid-19 pandemic and helmed an economic recovery that has boosted Taiwan’s stock exchange to record heights. The central bank last week revised up its 2020 growth target to 1.6%, making it an outlier among global peers as most major economies shrink. But Tsai does have one major problem: The Communist Party is threatening her life, with its Global Times newspaper saying over the weekend she would...